diff --git a/net/ceph/osdmap.c b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
index 1892c523c43c5308dd75fa17901a6c3de6cf70cf..df47871b83897baab84d44936c14c1c020a84ad8 100644
--- a/net/ceph/osdmap.c
+++ b/net/ceph/osdmap.c
@@ -488,15 +488,16 @@ static int __decode_pool_names(void **p, void *end, struct ceph_osdmap *map)
 		ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, pool, bad);
 		ceph_decode_32_safe(p, end, len, bad);
 		dout("  pool %d len %d\n", pool, len);
+		ceph_decode_need(p, end, len, bad);
 		pi = __lookup_pg_pool(&map->pg_pools, pool);
 		if (pi) {
+			char *name = kstrndup(*p, len, GFP_NOFS);
+
+			if (!name)
+				return -ENOMEM;
 			kfree(pi->name);
-			pi->name = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
-			if (pi->name) {
-				memcpy(pi->name, *p, len);
-				pi->name[len] = '\0';
-				dout("  name is %s\n", pi->name);
-			}
+			pi->name = name;
+			dout("  name is %s\n", pi->name);
 		}
 		*p += len;
 	}